DE WITT, Jacob Hasbrouck, (cousin of De Witt Clinton),
a Representative from New York; born in Marbletown, Ulster County,
N.Y., October 2, 1784; attended the rural schools and Kingston (N.Y.) Academy;
engaged in agricultural pursuits; served as adjutant in the War of 1812; served
in the New York state militia; elected as a Republican to the Sixteenth
Congress (March 4, 1819-March 3, 1821); was not a candidate for renomination in
1820; resumed agricultural pursuits; supervisor of Ulster County in 1827 and
again in 1840; member of the State assembly in 1839 and again in 1847; died in
Kingston, Ulster County, N.Y., January 30, 1857; interment in the Sharpe
Cemetery, on Albany Avenue.